Placing and open offer result

Creston PLC
13 October 2003

Creston Plc ("Creston" or the "Company")
Result of Placing and Open Offer

On 19 September 2003, Creston, the marketing services and communications group,
announced the acquisition of Nelson Bostock Communications Limited and a Placing
and Open Offer of 5,303,841 new ordinary shares at a price of 86 pence per new
ordinary share to raise approximately £4.24 million (net of expenses).

The Board is pleased to announce that, following the closing of the Open Offer
at 3.00 p.m on 10 October 2003 valid applications have been received from
Qualifying Shareholders for all of the 1,516,010 new ordinary shares available
for take up under the Open Offer by Qualifying Shareholders.

Creston received irrevocable undertakings from Directors and certain other
shareholders to subscribe for all or part of their pro-rata entitlements under
the open offer in respect of 575,830 new ordinary shares.  In addition, the
Company received irrevocable undertakings from Directors and certain other
shareholders not to subscribe for all or part of their pro-rata entitlements
under the open offer in respect of 712,001 new ordinary shares and these shares
were placed firm by Charles Stanley & Co. Limited with institutional investors.

The Placing and Open Offer remains conditional, inter alia, upon the approval of
the Company's shareholders. The extraordinary general meeting, at which a
resolution will be proposed to approve the Placing and Open Offer, is to be held
on 15 October 2003.

The new ordinary shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing
ordinary shares and will rank in full for dividends and other distributions
declared, made or paid after Admission.   Application has been made to the UK
Listing Authority for the new ordinary shares to be admitted to the Official
List of the UK Listing Authority and to the London Stock Exchange plc for the
new ordinary shares to be admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange's
market for listed securities. It is expected that Admission will take place and
dealings will commence in the new ordinary shares on Thursday, 16 October 2003.



Enquiries

Creston Plc                          020 7930 9757
Don Elgie, Chief Executive
Tim Alderson, Finance Director

Charles Stanley & Co. Limited        020 7953 2000
Mark Taylor
Freddy Crossley

Redleaf Communications               020 7955 1410
Emma Kane                            07876 338339
James White



Notes to Editors

About Creston PLC

Creston's strategy is to build a diversified international marketing services
group through a combination of organic growth and selective acquisitions. The
Board believes that it can identify synergistic benefits between currently
independent marketing services companies offering premium services such as
market research, direct marketing, customer relationship marketing and other
areas of marketing communications. The Board's objective is that each element of
the Group will reflect the continued trend away from mass marketing towards
one-to-one marketing between clients and customers.

Following its repositioning in January 2001 as a marketing services group,
Creston has made three significant acquisitions, each serving what the Directors
consider to be resilient sectors within the industry and which have demonstrated
growth despite difficult market conditions:

•    the acquisition in January 2001 of Marketing Sciences Limited, an
     international quantitative and qualitative market research company, based 
     in Winchester;

•    the acquisition in November 2001 of The Real Adventure Marketing
     Communications Limited, a national marketing communications company, based 
     in Bath; and

•    the acquisition in November 2002 of EMO Group Limited, a national
     channel marketing communications company, based in Swindon and Bristol.

About Nelson Bostock Communications Limited ("NBC")

•    Nelson Bostock Communications, a London based public relations
     agency founded in 1987, ranks as the 25th largest UK agency and 10th 
     largest agency in the technology sector in recent industry league tables. 
     Nelson Bostock Communications has a highly experienced management team and 
     employs 49 people, providing a broad range of public relations and 
     marketing communications consultancy and services to some 40 clients and 
     has demonstrated strong resilience in difficult market conditions.




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